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Yak and Cheese
February 20, 2008It's always somewhat of a crapshoot going back into the pantry at our farmhouse. Sure, me and my mom have tried to clean out the cupboard from time to time over the years, but it just seems we always miss a few things.
A while back, I reached into the pantry and came out with a blue box of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, a staple in my carb-heavy existence.
I cooked the noodles like normal and then poured in the cheese, and something just didn't look right.
Now it's not like the powdered cheese ever really looks or tastes like cheese to begin with. It always has a certain twang. It's a bright neon orange color like no cheddar or Monterey jack combo that exists in nature. These are simply a given.
But the cheese from this box was burnt orange, sorta like UT had manufactured its own brand or something.
For some reason, though, most likely simple hunger, the odd look -- and smell, I might add -- of the mac didn't stop me from taking a bite.
I can't even begin to describe the wretchedness that powdered, rotten old cheese tastes like. I quickly put it outside for the dogs to eat and even THEY turned up their nose at it.
(Mind you, these are dogs that eat their own poop.)
And so I looked at the expiration date, something I don't think I've ever done with the blue box delicacy. I didn't even know mac and cheese HAD an expiration date.
But it did. It so very, very, very did.
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